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Feb 15, 2019 (newstodate): For Aeroflot Cargo, the Nordic and Baltic markets are of significant importance. Since February 1, 2008, the company has been present with an office at Helsinki, Finland, that is also, since 2011, in charge of all cargo sales in Scandinavia, Finland, and the Baltic markets, with Denis Khmelevskiy as Aeroflot Cargo Regional Sales Manager. -We are seeing both revenues and profits developing quite well in this region that is now served exclusively with passenger aircraft flight after the stop in 2012 of the company's freighter services that until then comprised up to three weekly MD-11F rotations between Helsinki and Moscow, says Mr Khmelevskiy. -We are now offering two daily rotations from Moscow to Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm, three to Helsinki and one to Gothenburg, in addition to four daily rotations to Riga as well as three to Tallinn and Vilnius. -While these operations do not, of course, allow for over-size shipments that rely on trucking, the pax aircraft services are a fine match to the market's needs for express, urgent and special cargo that are key products offered by Aeroflot Cargo. -We have achieved CEIV certification of our main hub at Moscow Sheremetyevo which is important not least for our sales in the Norwegian market that is of key interest for us. -We would actually be happy to see more Aeroflot flights into Oslo as volumes sold there often require trucking into other Scandinavian airports. As of now, the capacity at Stockholm, Gothenburg and Copenhagen is sufficient but with growing overflow of Norwegian shipments the situation may of course change at these destinations as well. -In the Baltic region, Riga is the single largest market and we have one representative there who is primarily engaged in operational issues, including also passengers. -As an important development, we have just upgraded capacity to Narita from Moscow Sheremetyevo, our main Russian hub. -From February 12, 2019, flights to Narita are operated on the Boeing-777-300, our largest passenger airliner, as compared to Airbus-330-300 which was previously used. This gives us an increase of some 15 tonnes of additional cargo space per flight, which is a substantial service improvement for our Scandinavian and Baltic partners as well, says Mr Khmelevskiy.